- Auks or
alcids are
birds of the
family Alcidae in the
order Charadriiformes. The
alcid family includes the murres, guillemots, auklets, puffins, and murrelets...
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Retrieved 24 June 2019. Barrows,
Walter Bradford (1877). "Catalogue of the
Alcidae contained in the
Museum of the
Boston Society of
Natural History, with...
- a
relatively abundant medium-sized
pelagic seabird in the auk
family (
Alcidae)
found throughout the
North Pacific Ocean. It is one of
three species of...
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murre or Brünnich's
guillemot (Uria lomvia) is a bird in the auk
family (
Alcidae). This bird is
named after the
Danish zoologist Morten Thrane Brünnich...
- Pan-
Alcidae is a
clade of
charadriiform birds containing the auks and
their extinct relatives. It was
named in 2011 by N.A. Smith, who
defined it as all...
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colonial seabird and the only
extant member of the
genus Alca of the
family Alcidae, the auks. It is the
closest living relative of the
extinct great auk (Pinguinus...
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young in the
Atlantic Alcidae in
Nettleship &
Birkhead (1985) pp 319–354 Gaston,
Anthony J. & Jones, Ian (1998) The Auks,
Alcidae.
Oxford University Press...
- is a
small seabird from the
North Pacific. It is a
member of the
family Alcidae,
which includes auklets, guillemots,
murres and puffins. It
nests in old-growth...
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Retrieved 14 May 2010. Smith, N (2015). "Evolution of body m**** in the Pan-
Alcidae (Aves, Charadriiformes): the
effects of
combining neontological and paleontological...
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great auk,
Pinguinis [sic], from the
Pliocene of
North Carolina (Aves:
Alcidae)" (PDF).
Proceedings of the
Biological Society of Washington. 90 (3): 690–697...
